A.W. Tozer presents his main thesis as he expounds on the glory and attributes of God and asserts that the world’s spiritual starvation births from our absence of contemplation of God. Tozer states,
It is my opinion that the Christian concept of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.
Tozer claims that Christians have lost misplaced the majesty of God and Christians in a sense have anthropomorphized God, transforming him into our human friend. Thus, Tozer ruminates on various known characteristics of the known God so that by cogitating and deliberating on these attributes that the readers will mature into vigorous, substantial and tenacious adult Christians. The reason that the faculty chose this text as the first reading relates on multiple levels. Firstly, Proverbs states, “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” (Proverbs 9:10, ESV) The Lord endures as a such an incomprehensible being that his awesome power should instill fear within us. Anselm famously iterates his definition of God as “that than which nothing greater can be conceived.” Anselm states if we conceive …show more content…
Prayer leads to fruitfulness of good works and increased knowledge of God. And, an increased knowledge of God leads to more good works and more need to praise the Lord for Christ, prayer. This provides for the believers to produce good fruit that by the cause of will increase their knowledge of God. This precipitates preponderant works because that the believer’s knowledge of Will of God has enlarged. This positive feedback cycle will mature as long as the believer stays true to the path. Thus, knowledge of God proffers itself as quintessential to increasing our effectiveness and
It is my opinion that the Christian concept of God current in these middle years of the twentieth century is so decadent as to be utterly beneath the dignity of the Most High God and actually to constitute for professed believers something amounting to a moral calamity.
Tozer claims that Christians have lost misplaced the majesty of God and Christians in a sense have anthropomorphized God, transforming him into our human friend. Thus, Tozer ruminates on various known characteristics of the known God so that by cogitating and deliberating on these attributes that the readers will mature into vigorous, substantial and tenacious adult Christians. The reason that the faculty chose this text as the first reading relates on multiple levels. Firstly, Proverbs states, “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” (Proverbs 9:10, ESV) The Lord endures as a such an incomprehensible being that his awesome power should instill fear within us. Anselm famously iterates his definition of God as “that than which nothing greater can be conceived.” Anselm states if we conceive …show more content…
Prayer leads to fruitfulness of good works and increased knowledge of God. And, an increased knowledge of God leads to more good works and more need to praise the Lord for Christ, prayer. This provides for the believers to produce good fruit that by the cause of will increase their knowledge of God. This precipitates preponderant works because that the believer’s knowledge of Will of God has enlarged. This positive feedback cycle will mature as long as the believer stays true to the path. Thus, knowledge of God proffers itself as quintessential to increasing our effectiveness and